Chambers Europe 2019 has again ranked BOYANOV & Co. in the highest Band 1 ranking in Banking & Finance, Competition/Antitrust, Corporate/Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, and Real Estate. These rankings reconfirm the firm’s strong and stable position in the Bulgarian legal market. Impressed interviewees highlight the quality of the service: the lawyers “excel in being creative, […]
Today, the long-awaited amendment to the Personal Data Protection Act was promulgated in the Bulgarian State Gazette. Most notably, the law designates the Commission on Personal Data Protection as the Bulgarian supervisory authority under the GDPR and officially repeals the registration regime for personal data controllers which was inapplicable in practice since 25 May 2018. […]
BOYANOV & Co. announced the following promotions as of 1 February 2019: Radoslav Alexandrov is promoted to Partner and Head of Employment Practice Group; Dr. Nikolay Kolev - to Counsel within the Corporate and M&A Practice Group; Stela Sabeva – to Principal Associate and Head of the Intellectual Property Department; Rossiza Marinova and Marina Mollova […]
CEE Legal Matters announced the finalists for the CEE 2018 Deal of the Year in 17 CEE countries. BOYANOV & Co. has participated in PPF’s Acquisition of Telenor’s Telecom Business in Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Hungary, shortlisted for Deal of the Year in both Bulgaria and Hungary. SEE Legal members BOYANOV & Co. and BDK […]
The Academy of American and International Law is particularly valuable for lawyers outside the U.S. who work for multi-national corporations or for law firms that represent either U.S. clients or multi-national clients with U.S. interests. Highlights include: A faculty featuring some of the best legal scholars in the U.S., including, for example, Bryan Garner, Chief […]
World Trademark Review 1000 For a fifth consecutive year, BOYANOV & Co. received the Gold ranking in The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2019 guide of WTR 1000 proving its continuous ability to secure the most high-profile, big-ticket work from the most prestigious of clients. “BOYANOV & Co. serves up a stellar suite of services: clearance […]
The Bulgarian Commission on Personal Data Protection adopted a list of processing operations for which it would be mandatory for controllers to conduct data protection impact assessments. The controllers whose main or only place of establishment is on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria will be required to conduct a data protection impact assessment […]
Chambers Global 2019 has again ranked BOYANOV & Co. in the highest Band 1 ranking in Corporate/Commercial and Dispute Resolution. These rankings reconfirm the strong operating practices of the firm as well as the firm’s leading position in the Bulgarian legal market. Within the Corporate/Commercial practice area, Chambers Global continues to recognise: Managing partner Borislav Boyanov […]
Yordan Naydenov, Partner and Head of Corporate and M&A Practice Group and Dr. Nikolay Kolev, Counsel at BOYANOV & Co. contributed to the third edition of Private Equity, published by Thomson Reuters in 2018, London with general editors Charles Martin and Simon Perry. The Bulgarian chapter* provides a clear and comprehensive analysis of the key […]
BOYANOV & Co. is the only Bulgarian finalist of The Lawyer European Awards 2019 in the category Law Firm of the Year: Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Each year The Lawyer European Awards showcase the impressive achievements of Europe’s finest within the legal industry. This year The Lawyer marks the 10th anniversary of the annual […]
BOYANOV & Co. advised Albania Telecom Invest (ATI), a joint venture of Mr. Spas Roussev and the Bulgarian businessman of Albanian origin Elvin Guri, on the acquisition of Telekom Albania from OTE (Deutsche Telekom) for a total consideration of EUR 50 million. BOYANOV & Co. advised ATI on the entire deal – participation in an […]
BOYANOV & Co. advised the leading Greek real estate company NBG Pangaea REIC on the acquisition of I&B Real Estate AD in a transaction with a value of close to EUR 79 million. On the express mutual agreement of the parties, throughout the process, two dedicated teams of the firm provided legal support and assistance […]
Iva Miteva, Senior Associate specialising in arbitration at BOYANOV & Co., participated at the CEE/SEE Arbitration Workshop organised by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on 3 December 2018 in its Vienna office. More than 50 lawyers from 21 countries across the CEE and SEE regions attended the Workshop, which main focus was on cross-border and international arbitration. […]
On 23-25 November 2018, BOYANOV & Co. organised a team-building weekend in Borovets. The main program included a seminar on some of the key legal topics in IP (Protection of Trade Secrets), Competition (Geo-blocking Regulation in the Context of E-commerce), Employment (Prevention of Discrimination), M&A (Main elements of an M&A Deal), Litigation (Directors vs the […]
BOYANOV & Co. introduced Academy for Partners with the first seminar focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions, being held on Thursday, 15th November at InterContinental Sofia. Yordan Naydenov, Head of the Corporate and M&A practice group at the firm presented the key issues in an M&A deal, touching upon the tax and financing matters in front […]
The firm continues to receive the highest Tier 1 ranking in all practice areas researched by the 2019 edition of the International Financial Law Review 1000 in Bulgaria, Banking & finance, M&A, and Project development. The editorial review describes BOYANOV & Co. as an established brand that dominates the Bulgarian market, while the clients reveal […]
Borislav Boyanov, Managing Partner, Yordan Naydenov, Head of Corporate and M&A and Peter Petrov, Head of Competition and Antitrust at BOYANOV & Co. attended the International Bar Association’s Annual Conference on 8 – 12 October 2018 in Rome. The partners also participated in the meetings with local and international law firms organised as part of […]
BOYANOV & Co. currently works on the biggest deal in Bulgaria – the concession award procedure for Sofia Airport. The practice groups of Real estate, Corporate, Competition, Litigation, Banking and finance and Intellectual property are involved in this sizeable project. The maximum estimated value of the concession is EUR 3.9 billion. This is the second […]
Kina Chuturkova, Head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group, and Stela Sabeva, Senior Associate and Co-Head of IP Department (Trademarks), contributed to the Bulgarian chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Product Liability 2018, published by Law Business Research Ltd, London in July 2018. The edition provides comparative analysis of product liability regulation in 23 jurisdictions […]
The 10th edition of the Forum (14th – 15th June, Park Hyatt), titled The Future of Law: Technology and Legal Services in South East Europe: 2018-2028, was held with great interest among over 150 delegates and speakers from 30 countries from five continents including, beside the European countries, Jamaica, USA, Singapore and Australia. Borislav Boyanov, […]